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Silver Spin
by Luann Yetter
from the rain to the sun to the dark
Posted on June 14, 2019	by Luann Yetter
It rained all day but let up just as we left for the concert. By the time we got settled at Thompson's Point, there wasn't a cloud in the sky.
My concert mates, Ernie and Michael against a clear blue sky.
It might have been the bad weather that kept fans away for the opening act. Poor Jenny Lewis hit the stage right on time and played to a crowd only about a dozen rows deep. Good for us though as we easily made our way front and center.
From such a close vantage point you get to see the band dynamic: the way the bass player grins, the way the lead guitarist plays with his eyes closed. Lewis was resplendent in pink sequins, really camping it up in a mermaid style floor-length dress. For an opening act, Lewis and band played a lengthy set, worthy of her status, as she is nearly as popular as Death Cab.
Not only was it nice to be able to see both these acts on the same bill, but also they have both released decent albums in recent months. About half the set from Lewis and her band came from her new album
photo by Michael Johnson
On the Line, the highlight being the mid-tempo opener "Heads Gonna Roll" which showcases her story-telling ability as well as her talent for the sing-along chorus. Maybe she should have saved that one for her closer after she had warmed up the crowd and the crowd had found her.
Death Cab played plenty of songs from their latest Thank You for Today. A highlight was "60 & Punk," a lament to a former rock idol in the ballad style singer/songwriter Ben Gibbard does so well. "There's nothing elegant about being a drunk," Gibbard sang, eschewing an instrument and taking center stage with just a microphone for the only time all night. "There's nothing righteous being 60 and punk."
Death Cab's set was long and generous, pulling from as far back as 2001's Photo Album. During the encore Gibbard even chose a song from his long ago side project Postal Service and invited Jenny Lewis back on stage to reprise "Nothing Better," prompting raised eyebrows and questioning looks from myself and my concert mates, as we all had to admit we didn't remember that the two had ever played in a band together.
By encore time the sun had set on the Fore River and the twilight had faded. It felt especially fitting then for Gibbard to pull out the acoustic guitar for a quiet version of what is probably his most elegantly written song, "I Will Follow You Into the Dark." Gibbard must have been only in his twenties when he wrote this meditation on aging, death, religion and devotion, and I imagine even he is surprised that the voice of such an old soul emerged in the song. I was not the only one moved by the experience of seeing him perform this live as the whole crowd reverently sang along, promising to our own someone that "when your soul embarks/I will follow you into the dark."
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Cold Chocolate and Pumpkin Pie
Posted on April 8, 2019	by Luann Yetter
Frank and I strolled over to High Street tonight for some live music at the North Church. This is a wonderful old venue right in our neighborhood, built about 150 years ago by the Unitarians. Owned now by the Farmington Historical Society, it's a rustic, cozy place, romantic enough for a wedding (indeed, son Nate and daughter-in-law Justina were married here) and charming enough for an evening of live music.
The North Church, which has been beautifully restored by the Farmington Historical Society. The steeple blew off in a wind storm in the late 1940s. (Photo courtesy of the Farmington Historical Society)
We treated ourselves to a pieces of pumpkin and apple pie in the basement reception area, chatted with friends and neighbors, and then strolled upstairs to take a seat in one of the long wooden pews. Tonight's offering was Cold Chocolate, a folk rock trio from Boston.
These accomplished musicians rocked the old church a little harder than the usual folk artists I've seen there, and I enjoyed their energy. A memorable cover from early in their first set was Bob Dylan's "Tonight I'll be Staying Here With You," a good choice for them since their original songs fit that same mid-tempo, Americana sort of sound. Their originals were entirely new to me. I enjoyed them but will not try to review them after only one listen. I did buy a cd, however. Maybe a review, or an interview with the band, will happen in the future.
Cold Chocolate at the North Church. You can listen to them here.
Venue is so important to a live music experience. I like the dark, noisy, crowded atmosphere of Tuck's, our neighborhood bar, and I like the elegance and expanse of the State Theater in Portland, but there's a place too for the casual, intimate ambiance of a restored 19th century church, where ticket prices are reasonable, pie is free, kids are welcome and those who aren't much for the bar scene can feel comfortable.
Cold Chocolate warmed to the venue. We were a small but appreciative audience, and we warmed to them too.
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Inviting the Wild In
Posted on March 3, 2019	by Luann Yetter
Left to right: Joe Hodgkins, Chris Goodwin, Melody Bickford, Dave Fish and D.J. Taylor
I met with Dave Fish and Melody Bickford recently to talk about their band Invite the Wild, a blues rock quintet that plays local night spots from the apres ski Widowmaker to the late night Roost to my own neighborhood hangout, Tuck's Ale House. I asked them to tell me about the beginnings of the band.
"The Delta Roots way back in the day, that was the beginning of it all," said Fish before launching into a rock and roll tale that included Barack Obama's inauguration, band member departures and arrivals, and three or four name changes.
But we'll get back to that.
In more recent history, Invite the Wild released a self-titled album last fall. It's available on all the major streaming platforms, and the band also has cds which they sell online and at shows, where sales are still brisk.
The album showcases the band's bluesy style on a collection of originals, Bickford most often on lead vocals, delivering a Bonnie Rait kind of confidence to songs like "Please Find Me" and "Rearview Mirror" and showing her vocal versatility when she effortlessly tackles the more country "Goin' Down to Nashville."
The band is full of songwriters. Fish contributed clever lyrics to the dynamic "Trade it In," where lines like "I don't know what I was thinkin'/I thought we were the perfect match" approach the Dylanesque. Guitarists D.J. Taylor and Joe Hodgkins show off their story-telling talents in the rags to riches to rags saga "Comin' Back from Nashville" and the ghost tale "Moses Varnum." Deft guitar work from both Taylor and Hodgkins shows off their bar band pedigrees.
The work is the product of several recording sessions with Farmington native Jon Gaither at his home studio in Portland. Bickford and Fish have fond memories of the recording process which involved the band settling into Gaither's Victorian house for entire weekends and setting up in his third floor studio. "We worked 9 a.m. to midnight the whole time," said Bickford, bolstered by "lots of coffee and Chinese food."
All the tracks were recorded live, not an easy feat in a small studio space, but the team found a way to make it work, with amps tucked into closets and the drums in an adjacent room. Gaither handled the technical side, recording, mixing and mastering the album. "Jon knows what he's doing. He's learning all the time," Bickford said. "Vocals got laid last most of time, but at the end of the day when we did the vocals he had the same energy and attention to detail."
If Gaither seemed like a sixth member of the band on this album, it's no surprise. He was in the very first version of this group, back in 2009 when he and Fish and drummer Chris Goodwin, returning from a trip to Washington D.C. to attend the inauguration festivities for Barack Obama, decided to form a band. "Jon had a beat up old drum set, and we started playing in our living room," Fish recalled. That was the Delta Roots, who played together for several years until Gaither moved to Portland. Then Goodwin and Fish placed an ad on Craig's List only to discover their perfect fit in Melody and Joe Tinkham, a couple they had never met before, but who lived only a mile away. They called the new band Quick Fix and kept playing, that is, until Tinkham left the band.
Meanwhile Fish knew D.J. from sharing gigs with the band Nigels Thornberry. "I always knew I wanted a band with Melody and D.J." said Fish. "And I was literally sitting next to D.J. when I heard Joe was quitting." The offer went out to D.J. immediately, and "a second life was breathed into our musical career." It was about this time that the band became the Usual Suspects, and they gigged together as a quartet for several years. The next iteration came when "magically we found Joe [Hodgkins], and it changed a lot," said Fish.
Playing Alex Fest at Titcomb Mountain with Hodgkins was a band highlight. "It was unbelievable," said Bickford. "Beautiful weather. So much local music, so many local bands." The event was a fundraiser honoring Alex Witt who died tragically in a ski accident in 2017. "We learned Grateful Dead songs because Alex was a Dead fan," explained Bickford. "We found our songs learning those songs and playing that gig."
Once the band had an album to put on music platforms they realized just how many "usual suspects" were out there and another name change was in the works. Taking inspiration from a Nikita Gill poem they decided on Invite the Wild. "The poem deals with the idea of Red Ridinghood, and what if she invited the wolf in willingly?" explains Bickford.
Since the album release, Fish said, "we've been able to be a little more selective with gigs. And we play more what we want. We play a lot more originals now."
Bickford agreed. "Once you lay an album, once you have that, so much pride and confidence comes from that. I feel so much more comfortable filling the set with originals."
"And we always get good reactions from them," said Fish.
Many of the band's covers are from the sixties and seventies and their originals are inspired by the same era. "I can't picture us playing anything else, " said Fish. "It's all any of us have loved since we were young."
The band seems to agree not only on musical style but on just about everything else. "We love each other like family," said Fish. Chris and I don't communicate, we just play. He's definitely the quiet guy. The four of us, he said, referring to the rest of the band, "we don't argue or debate."
"We have the only guitar players on earth who don't have egos," agreed Bickford.
The camaraderie has carried over to their songwriting, and the first song on their album is a good indication of what's to come. "You Keep Me From Home" sounds like it could be an angsty love song but in reality the lyrics are about the band's relationship with music. Fish came up with the chorus and then each band member contributed a verse. "This is our solid band song," he said. Lots of songs for their next album are ready to go, all of them written as a band. They also have live shows booked into next fall. "We're happy to stay local," said Fish.
"The music scene around here is really great," said Bickford. "There are a lot of places in Western Maine that support local music."
Currently the band is excited about a new song they are working on called "Red," what Fish and Bickford label as a feminist anthem, drawing inspiration from "Girls of the Wild," the same poem that inspired their band name. "It's one of my favorite songs to play now," said Bickford.
Bickford and Fish seem confident about the band's future, but they also said that sharing "music and life philosophy" with their bandmates has kept them in the "now." "I find myself knowing how to live in the moment so much easier," said Bickford. "And that shows in the music big time." It inspires their approach to recording, writing and playing live. "Because that moment is special," she said. "That moment is powerful."
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Brian Wilson and Pet Sounds….
Posted on December 7, 2018	by Luann Yetter
by Jim Mello
Cross Center Bangor Maine 10/27/18
It was raw, cold, had been snowing, was raining diagonally, and there is no real close parking, the exact opposite of Southern Cal, at least The Beach Boys mythic version. Surf wasn't up.
Turned my collar to the cold and rain and made my way to the Cross Center…one hour and fifteen minutes early because last week the ticket window person said because I didn't buy the tickets direct from Ticketmaster I might "have problems" and, "somebody else might have your seat." Gave me a chance to chat with Freeman, the manager of the local Bull Moose. Silver linings.
And yes, the sound system was playing muzak version of Beach Boys songs…rather bizarre…even Dylan isn't welcoming people with Sinatra covers. The couple behind me commented on it. I must confess, because of my love of Beach Boys harmonies, whether the subject matter be cars, surfing, or surfer girls; I was not too troubled by the muzak..kinda restful for the seniors among us. Kinda New Age Surf music. The guy in front of me, who is "into radio"…I was supposed to know him…but, he didn't know me, the air guitar legend. Anyway, he knew the set list: three parts: Beach Boys hits/Pet Sounds in its entirety (depends on your point of view)…and two or three encores. He said there'd be a 15 minute intermission, but that didn't happen. Not sure they could have gotten Brian in and out from behind the piano in that amount of time…besides looking lost and anxious, he was sporting a fairly large cast. They plunked him down behind the key board, and there he stayed. looking at times almost comfortable..
Brian Wilson, photo from the Los Angeles Times
Then the band came on stage…10 musicians counting Brian who played piano all night…Any ten piece band catches my attention and these guys were good…a thermin (yes!), two keyboards!, two or three guitarists, depending on the song…bass, and a guy who played a huge saxophone..flutes, a clarinet?..and something that looked like an oversize harmonica…they were tight, flexible, at times jazzy…and well oiled…everything centers around Brian and whether or not he, or Al Jardine, can hit the (wonderfully harmonic) high notes.
They started off with nine, yes, count 'em nine, Beach Boy hits! Only Logan and Ernie would have been moaning. The Fun Fun Fun had begun…Now, I'm not a big fan of some of the tunes, but they are in my DNA…pumped into my adolescent not-yet-finished-growing, reptilian(Pavlovian ) brain and I was dancin' in my seat, playing air guitar, harmonizing with the wino few. The 15 year old girl next to me knew all the tunes, thanks to good parenting, and me and her dad were doing the high harmonies. What I realized was this was good old Chuck Berry based rock and roll(which you don't hear very often anymore) with lyrics about living in California…cars…girls…surf…I like it , you can dance to it, its got a good beat. Ill give it a 75! It was great medicine for the melancholy mood I was in. (California Girls, I Wanna Dance, I get Around, Shut Down, Deuce Coupe, Surfer Girl, Water, Don't Worry Baby (The Best Beach Boy song ever…so sadly romantic!), and Darlin'. The band was playful and loose and harmonically correct. Better than benzos IMHO…
And, then this character (or caricature) appeared out of nowhere(backstage physically, but spiritually somewhere else), looking like a refugee from Bob Dylan's "Cowboy Band"…hair like Dylans, a semi-too-tight fitting Nudie suit…kinda like Link Wray on acid. He was Blondie Chapin, and he was like a Shaman…moving about the stage like he was in a trance, while almost everybody stayed in place, and playing the best damn blues based guitar I've heard in years.Something transcendent happened and the light show intensified and for three songs Feel Flows, Wild Honey, and Sail on Sailor… we were in a different musical space…Beach Boys on acid…for real…and, just as quickly he disappeared….only to "appear" intermittently for the rest of the show playing mostly lead tambourine (my instrument of choice)…still never stopping, banging the tambourine on his chest, anywhere…sometimes with his hands..pure intrigue. Wild Honey was just that, wild…with burning guitar…great harmonies, and psychedelic lights. Good thing I resisted the THC.
All that as a warm up to Pet Sounds! Now, I'm not one to claim Pet Sounds is the album of the decade or century or whatever…it did influence The Beatles (McCartney)..and has a few lovely songs on it, including "Caroline No." Otherwise I'm ambivalent about Brian's magnum opus "adolescent symphony for God (the West Coast God?). But live! With this band! Well, it came alive and Brian's compositional skills were evident. It was a thing to be heard. A blending of jazz, rock, and classical, and Four Freshman harmony that was an aural treat. I even didn't mind "Sloop John B."
Even the adolescent themes, which really are universal themes about relationships, were heard from the perspective, my perspective, of fifty years of difficulty…Brian's romanticism banging into the real time pain of relationships but always with the hope of healing and reconciliation. I was flashed back to Friday Night Legion Hall dances (Put your head on my shoulder…) and everything since…all with beautiful musical contexts (except "John B")…the sax player was great…the drummer was fantastic…
Brian served as an MC kinda…announcing the song, and who would be singing lead…and then there was Blondie drifting in and out like some disembodied ghost…
And, then it was encores and if you weren't ready to dance then, what can I say? The security people kept people from dancing in the aisles…but some kids broke through..the rest of us boogied in place.
"Good Vibrations" especially…only the Grinch would have refused to move…
then a quiet shift to "Love and Mercy", the title track from a Brian solo album…kind of his theme song…he sang the best he did all night, and almost carried the vocal himself…
Love and mercy is what we need.
All I can say is, Amen…
Waiting for Brian Wilson or someone like him)
the people drip in one by one
snaking into their seats
as muzaked Beach Boy songs
greet them
"Help Me Rhonda"
shifts nostalgia into fourth gear
the cold wet non SoCal Maine weather
blusters outside
dropping torrential rain
diagonal across the street lights:
the surf's not up
Brian's sad saga the unsung soundtrack:
a fable of hope
an inspiration
in darkening times
until Brian appears
behind the piano
a literal figurehead
to his ten piece band
voice missing high notes
covered by the well oiled band
face distantly pained
mind on another plane
mirrored in grimaces
and nervous scratches
he never seems to quite be here
but his music
on the wings of faith
and expertise
soars… surrounds
lifts in exquisite harmonies
and musicians
channeling genius
bring melodies
that unfold into
some just discovered
jazz tapestry masterpiece
enveloping the audience
in this adolescent
Pet Sounds symphony to God
as the wounds of generations
lie open
to a Chuck Berried salve
dipped in wild honey
so sorely needed these fifty years later
leading us to
jlm 1027/18
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1942: An Album Review
Posted on November 15, 2018	by Luann Yetter
Julian Saporiti has always been a masterful lyricist. His perceptive observations crafted with well-chosen words manage to convey mood and message without excess. Along with his writers' feel for language come lovely, memorable melodies that embrace every line. Back in the early 2000s Saportiti brought his songs to life with his band the Young Republic, releasing a couple of impressive albums on End of the Road records before the band broke up in 2010. You can hear their work here: And here:
(Full disclosure and proud parent moment: my son was in this band!)
Saporiti disappeared from the music scene for several years while he pursued studies in American history, earning a master's degree in Wyoming and landing at Brown University to pursue a PhD. Now he's back in the spotlight with a new collaboration with fellow Brown PhD candidate Erin Aoyama as the duo No No Boy and a new album called 1942. The time behind the scenes has been productive for Saporiti, and the new album glows with quiet songs of loss and longing. Inspired by his doctoral research, the songs evoke eras past from the Asian American perspective, illuminating their marginalized experiences during WWII and the Vietnam War.
A major focus of 1942 is on the internment of Japanese Americans by their own government during WWII. Oddly enough, as Saporiti explores the plight of these internees, the stories blossom as love songs. In "Heart Mountain" a man looks forward to an idyllic future with his sweetheart, "with so much love that it spills and runs down in rivers past the house that we build." But meanwhile, "a daydream must do" along with stealing kisses in the laundry room and admiring her "perfect crooked tooth."
In "Two Candles in the Dark," a boy is infatuated with a girl who doesn't know how to dance ("my eyes are stuck on her/her eyes don't leave her feet). And there's the "would-be Casanova walking three girls home" in "Instructions to All Persons."
And yet we feel the undercurrent of despair. In "Heart Mountain" (the real name of an internment camp in Wyoming, the camp, in fact, where Aoyama's grandmother was incarcerated) the lovers lament that "over and over our hearts are rapped by the rules," And again, when the two lovers are dancing, the woman who can't dance says she's "gotta get out of this place," not the idle lament of a restless teenager, but the desperate yearning of a woman incarcerated. Casanova has received a letter that begins "Instructions to all person's of Japanese ancestry," and in the context of the album 1942, we know what that means: he is being forced to leave his home to be interned in a camp far away, simply because of his Japanese heritage.
In "Ogie/Naoko" two young Japanese Americans living in Hawaii can't see each other because of the restrictions of martial law (the backstory explained in the liner notes). "Where may our loyalties end?" Ogie asks Naoko, the woman he loves. "To each other, of course, to the end," she answers. Personal bonds transcend political ones for these characters, and we love them all the more for that.
Yet Saporiti doesn't back away from the political realities in these love stories. The unfair plight of these characters becomes even more poignant as we see them struggle with their bondage while at the same time experiencing the wonders of romantic love. "And he felt good, for a moment or so," Saporiti tells us in the refrain of "Instructions to all Persons." Of course he did. I would too, we think to ourselves, and in our empathy we find more disgust for the system that put these innocent people in such unfair imprisonment.
Other songs are more autobiographical, as Saporiti examines his own Asian American experience. In "Boat People," a riveting tale of a doctor's perilous escape from Vietnam in an flimsy fishing boat, he reflects that "my mother came here too, forty years ago." And in "Dragon Park" he seems to be recalling his own youth as a Vietnamese-American in Nashville when he says "I know that Southern stare/not just at home but everywhere."
Musically 1942 stays low key. Acoustic guitar is punctuated by well-placed strings. Piano, ukulele, and pedal steel are all used sparingly to good effect. Saporiti's voice is consistently warm and expressive while Ayoama's harmonies add clarity to the lyrics. I confess, I miss the drums and would like to hear a full rock band rendition of some of these songs, but clearly that's not what Saporiti is going for on 1942. The quiet approach allows for romance and whimsy while also lending gravity to the underlying loneliness of characters stung by the irrationality of prejudice and racism.
1942 is an album about war and incarceration. And yet, it's really quite lovely. Saporiti's musical story of the Asian-American experience is ultimately one we find ourselves humming along to as we reflect on our own stories.
See also Indie Rocker or Academic? Former Young Republic leader finds a brilliant way to be both
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Indie Rocker or Academic? Former Young Republic leader finds a brilliant way to be both
Posted on October 8, 2018	by Luann Yetter
A new album by Julian Saporiti is always a big event in my musical life. Julian's former band, the Young Republic, made some of the best music of the early 2000s, and I'm not just saying that because my son was in the band.
Julian recorded this fall's offering, 1942, with Erin Aoyama as the duo No-No Boy. It's the product of several years of ambitious research into Asian-American history, in particular the Japanese internment camps that were part of U.S. policy in this country during World War II. The project is not only an album of new material that will appeal to a wide audience but also serves as part of Julian's PhD studies at Brown University.
Recording the album was a long and collaborative process. Saporiti traveled to Illinois last summer to spend a week cutting basic guitar and vocal tracks with fellow Berklee grad Seth Boggess. "Over the course of the next year I tinkered with the album," he said. "I'd have friends layer on instruments." Those friends included recording artist Kishi Bashi who layered strings onto some of the songs. "I kind of crave feedback and collaboration," Julian told me. "I'm more open than I used to be, for sure. No-No Boy is currently touring behind the album, playing dates across the country from east coast to west and back again, culminating in a performance at New York's Lincoln Center in mid-November. Playing libraries, universities and even a Buddhist temple, the tour is far from the typical rock band tour. "This project just effortlessly has an audience," said Julian, due, he said, to "the uniqueness of the academic/historian/folk singer thing." Performances on this tour are as much presentation as concert with Julian and Erin sharing family stories and human interest stories from their research along with moving images of the Asian American experience.
This tour is more befitting a performer in his thirties, said Julian, in contrast to the spartan, hand-to-mouth touring days of the Young Republic. "This time there are honorariums and food and big arts institutions with lots of money who say 'come and play,'" said Julian. Gone are the days of "KFC buffets where we stuff food in our pockets."
photo by Sam Carignan
Last fall Julian came to the University of Maine at Farmington not only to give his musical presentation but also to visit my classes where he talked at length about his research and aspects of the Asian American experience of which my first-year college students were unaware. They learned a lot from both the classroom visit and the performance, and Julian says that educational aspect is the main focus of this tour.
Many days off from the public performances are filled with school visits and workshops, and No-No Boy is selling not only the album but also an annotated lyric book. "We've already had teachers that are using this in the classroom, along with the images," he said.
Despite the academic slant, No-No Boy can play a rock club when the opportunity arises. The have opened for Kishi Bashi in more traditional rock venues. "That poor unsuspecting indie rock audience," Julian joked. But in truth, he said, those shows have gone over well. The duo can stage what Julian described as "an indie rock show with projections behind us. The material is really malleable in that way."
Back when I knew Julian in the Young Republic he was firmly planted in the music business. Although now he's as much scholar as musician, he sees a link between his first band and the work he's doing now. "The foundations are with the YR," he said. "In 'Black Duck Blues' you see the theoretical principal developing. I just hadn't read a book yet in my life."
Saporiti seems to be happy combining the music business with academia. He seems passionate in his desire to "illuminate the understudied past" as his promo material explains, and he knows that using his music business skills and experience can help him find an audience. "One of our videos has 5000 views," he said. "That's a lot more people than are going to read my peer-reviewed articles."
1942 is available through Bandcamp, Apple Music and other music services.
A trailer for the album can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z4J9avL400
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Mid-Week Magic: Jeremy Loops and Mt. Joy
Last Tuesday Frank picked me up on campus right after I wrapped up my journalism class and we headed to Portland in the rain. This mid-week diversion was prompted by a stunning convergence of events (what my friend Mello would surely label a harmonic convergence) that resulted in two great bands playing within a couple blocks of each other in Portland on the same night.
When I see a show in Portland I like to stay over, not a cheap thing to do — impossibly expensive in the summer, and pricey even now in September. So getting two shows for the price of one night in the Holiday Inn is a good deal. And there they were: Jeremy Loops, all the way from Cape Town, South Africa opening for Milky Chance at the State Theatre at 8 p.m. and Mt. Joy headlining at Port City, show starting at 9.
Jeremy Loops at the State Theatre
The rain was relentless, so we were dripping wet by the time we entered the State Theatre and made our way to the floor. Loops was already on stage, alone, with an acoustic guitar, and no doubt the majority in the audience were thinking at this point that he was fairly pleasant opening act. Then appeared the drummer and bass player, and the show got a little livelier. When sax player Hiram Koopman arrived on stage, audience attention kicked into high gear. Koopman, frame impossibly lean, dreadlocks wondrously long, is a South African Clarence Clemons counterpart to Loops' Springsteen showmanship. Next came Motheo Moleko adding an unexpected rap to build on the energy even more. By now the crowd was with Loops and "Squad," happy to participate in raised-hand claps, arm wavings, and sing-alongs at the band's bidding, to the point where everyone in the room seemed to forget these guys were the opening act.
Jeremy Loops and band at the State Theatre
Loops and band routinely headline shows around South Africa and could be found pretty high on the line-up for any number of European festivals this past summer. Songs like "Down South" showcase their sound marvelously: the African sort of chanting that Loops "loops" into a swirling overture, the unexpected saxophone and rap solos, a beat that sounds a bit Jamaican to our ears but I suspect is purely African.
Someone from the crowd called for "Gold" from Loops' new album Critical as Water, and Loops seemed genuinely sorry not to launch into it. But an opening act plays under strict time constraints and far too soon the Loop Squad was taking its bows.
Frank and I had plenty of time to run over to Port City, dripping all over a new venue after another dose of rain. Even when I was young I didn't like standing for shows, so Port City is not my favorite venue, unless I'm lucky enough to get a seat at the bar. This time I got lucky, and we settled back, beer in hand, for show #2.
No hip hop, no saxophone, no surprises here; Mt. Joy are old school, and in all the right ways. Lead singer Matt Quinn has a strong voice with impressive range and writes quirky lyrics, stringing together vivid images in Beat poet style. A couple times during their set in the middle of one of their own numbers, the band segued into a classic rock song, the Flaming Lips' "Do You Realize" at one point and Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine" at another, then gracefully moved back into their own tune. I've never seen that done in concert before, but it's a great way to make a nod to some of your sources of inspiration without turning into a cover band. "Astrovan," which came fairly early in the set, was the highlight for me. "Angels smoking cigarettes on rooftops in fishnets in the morning" is as good a way as any to begin a song, and I bet Bob Dylan would agree. While the band can fit pretty neatly in a folk rock category, there is, in Quinn's voice and the arrangements, a bit of soul woven in which adds color and texture to their sound.
After the high energy of Jeremy Loops, I was afraid Mt. Joy might disappoint, but they did not. In fact, they provided the perfect mid-tempo tone to the second half of the evening, and Frank and I left Port City feeling a sense of accomplishment in seeing two such memorable shows in one night. The next morning, after a quick coffee and pastry on Congress Street, we headed back to Farmington. Frank dropped me off back on campus and suddenly I found myself standing in front of a classroom full of students, and it was Wednesday afternoon.
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History, Travel


text:
Gawrilow Possad () ist eine Kleinstadt in der Oblast Iwanowo (Russland) mit  Einwohnern (Stand ).

Geografie
Die Stadt liegt am Ostende eines Ausläufers des Moskauer Höhenrückens etwa 85 km südwestlich der Oblasthauptstadt Iwanowo bei der Mündung des Flüsschens Woimiga in den Irmes im Flusssystem der Wolga.

Gawrilow Possad ist Verwaltungszentrum des gleichnamigen Rajons.

Geschichte
Der Ort wurde erstmals 1434 als Dorf Gawrilowskoje urkundlich erwähnt. Möglicherweise wurde das Dorf bereits zu Beginn des 13. Jahrhunderts gegründet und vom Wladimirer Großfürsten Wsewolod "Großes Nest" nach dem Taufnamen seines Sohnes Swjatoslaw, Gawriil, benannt.

1609 gehörte das Dorf dem Russischen Zarenhof als Gawrilowa sloboda.

1789 wurde unter dem Namen Gawrilowski Possad das Stadtrecht verliehen; die heutige Namensform bürgerte sich erst zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts ein. Im 19. Jahrhundert noch wichtiger regionaler Handelspunkt, stagnierte die Entwicklung der Stadt in Folge, verglichen mit anderen Städten des Gebietes.

Bevölkerungsentwicklung

Anmerkung: Volkszählungsdaten (1926 gerundet)

Kultur und Sehenswürdigkeiten
Die Stadt besitzt ein Heimatmuseum.

Wirtschaft und Infrastruktur
Gawrilow Possad ist Zentrum eines Landwirtschaftsgebietes. Es gibt kleinere Betriebe der Lebensmittel- und Textilindustrie.

Unweit befindet sich ein Gestüt, auf welchem die Rasse Wladimirer Kaltblut (russisch Wladimirski Tjaschelowos) gezüchtet wird (siehe Stadtwappen).

Die Stadt liegt an der auf diesem Abschnitt 1899 eröffneten Eisenbahnstrecke (Moskau–) Belkowo–Iwanowo (Streckenkilometer 238 ab Moskau).

Weblinks

 Gawrilow Possad auf mojgorod.ru (russisch)

Einzelnachweise

Ort in der Oblast Iwanowo
Ersterwähnung 1434
Stadtrechtsverleihung 1789

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A Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta (anteriormente conhecida como Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta) é uma corrida de ciclismo feminina profissional de dois dias de competição espanhola que se disputa em Madrid coincidindo com o penúltimo e no mesmo dia da etapa final da Volta a Espanha em setembro.

Imitando a experiência do Tour de France com seu La Course by Le Tour de France, criada em 2014, uma vez publicados os calendários os organizadores da corrida espanhola decidiram criar uma corrida feminina similar para a Volta 2015. Depois de uma primeira negativa a UCI reorganizou o calendário para localizar esta corrida a 13 de setembro (última dia da Volta masculina).

Criou-se em 2015 na categoria 1.1; depois da criação do UCI World Tour Feminino em 2016 ascendeu a essa máxima categoria mundial.

O traçado consiste no mesmo que umas horas depois realizam os homens da Volta a Espanha, neste caso dando 15 voltas ao circuito totalizando 85,7 km. Para não coincidir com Volta esta se realiza pela tarde enquanto a masculina entrou a dito circuito pela noite. Ao igual que La Course destaca pela quantia dos seus prêmios -os mesmos que numa etapa da Volta-.
Como novidade neste ano, no dia anterior celebrar-se-á uma etapa de contra relógio por equipas em Boardilla do Monte (Madrid), passando a ser uma prova por etapas.

Ao igual que a Volta a Espanha e Tour de France está organizada por Amaury Sport Organisation, de facto faz parte dos eventos relacionados com a disputa da Volta.

Apesar de seu suposto sucesso, ao igual que a La Course by Le Tour de France, foi criticada nesta ocasião pela pouca repercussão e propaganda já que em sua primeira edição a única informação disponível até horas antes de seu início foi um livro de rota difundido pela Real Federação Espanhola de Ciclismo e outros sites especializados.

Palmarés

Outras classificações

Palmarés por países

Ver também

 Volta a Espanha
 La Course by Le Tour de France

Referências

Ligações externas

 Site oficial
 A Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta (cqranking.com)
 A Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta (sitiodeciclismo.net)


Paper #3268 received 23 Dec 2017; revised manuscript received 1 Mar 2018; accepted for publication 16 Mar 2015; published online 31 Mar 2018.
Experimental data on the dependence of the average refractive index of rat tail tendon (RTT) on water content are reported. Using optical coherence tomography, the average group refractive index (at a wavelength of 930 nm) and cross-section area of rat tail tendon fascicle specimens during their air-drying and rehydration were monitored. The dependence of the average group refractive index of RTT (ng) on the volume fraction of water (Cw) has been found to be nonlinear and to be well approximated by the quadratic polynomial ng = 1.5713 – 0.1969Cw– 0.0328(Cw)2. The reported data are shown to be in good agreement with previously published data for bovine cornea.
17. P. Fratzl, "Collagen: structure and mechanics, an Introduction," in Collagen, Springer, New York, USA, 1-13 (2008).
28. M. Born, and E. Wolf, Principles of optics: electromagnetic theory of propagation, interference and diffraction of light, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1999).
29. D. J. Segelstein, The complex refractive index of water, Doctoral dissertation, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City (1981).


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Ranking all 30 NHL teams based on 24/7 watchability
The much-anticipated debut of HBO's 24/7: Road to the Winter Classic arrived Saturday, and reviews of the first episode were … lukewarm, at best. The consensus was that the Maple Leafs were only modestly entertaining, and the Red Wings were downright dull.
That's a disappointing reception for a show that usually does a great job of making the NHL seem fascinating. Then again, the producers can only work with what they have, and for one week at least they didn't seem to have much.
It was only one episode, of course, and maybe the second will be better. Hockey fans had better hope that these two teams can loosen up a bit, because we're stuck with them. After all, it's not like we can go to the bullpen for a replacement.
But what if we could? What if the two spots on 24/7 weren't automatically given to whoever was playing in the Winter Classic, but instead went to the most entertaining teams, both on and off the ice, of a given moment?
That sounds like the sort of question that calls for an in-depth ranking. So let's give this a shot. Here are all 30 teams, ranked based on how interesting they'd be if we swapped them into 24/7 right now.
30. Columbus Blue Jackets
What would work: Do you like stories about plucky underdogs, scorned and mocked by everyone only to emerge triumphant at the end?
What wouldn't work: What if we told you we couldn't swing the whole "emerge triumphant at the end" bit? Still interested? Wait, come back …
Breakout star: Sergei Bobrovsky has a nice little character arc going — run out of Philadelphia, finds redemption in Columbus, wins the Vezina, then falters under the increased expectations. Plus, he backed up 24/7 legend Ilya Bryzgalov for a year, so maybe he picked up a few tips.
Dominant story line: A terrible team struggles to stay near the .500 mark but still somehow remains in the playoff race. We'll just call this one "the Metro" for short.
29. Florida Panthers
What would work: They're a rebuilding team that has been improving under a new coach.
What wouldn't work: Let's face it, the Panthers are a bad team playing in a lousy market, and their roster isn't exactly packed with household names. On a show like 24/7, they'd probably be a disaster. If only they had some sort of wacky veteran around to make things bearable …
Breakout star: Oh, hello there, Tim Thomas! Hey, remember when you used to speak your mind freely, and then everyone yelled at you so you stopped doing that? We'd like you to start again.
Dominant story line: After the first few minutes of the debut episode, you set up one of these in front of your television set.
28. Detroit Red Wings
What would work: They already have experience with 24/7, since they're on this year's show.
What wouldn't work: Five minutes after last week's episode ended, nobody could remember a single scene involving a Red Wing.
Breakout star: Based on what we've seen so far, the winner by default is Jimmy Howard doing whatever it is this is supposed to be. Wait, he's hurt now? Um, pass.
Dominant story line: After an especially bad game, coach Mike Babcock skips the bag skate and instead punishes the team by making them break down tape of their own episode.
>> Read the full post on Grantland
Labels: 24/7, grantland
I take it you don't actually watch Marc-Edouard Vlasic play much, because if you want Team Canada to win gold in Sochi, he'd best be in the lineup. Just take a look at the other left-shooting defensemen from orientation camp; you've got Keith, and then who's better than Vlasic? Bouwmeester, arguably. And Phaneuf has his better qualities, but I'd rather have Vlasic out there instead as a shut-down guy.
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Whether you are looking to buy your first home, renew your mortgage, refinance, or buy a second home, a Mortgage Agent can get you the best option for you and save you Money!
So you are ready to buy your first home, now what? Your first step should definitely be to obtain a mortgage pre-approval, but don't get that confused with a "Pre-Qualification".


Chris Gooderham will join the AHDB Dairy Market Intelligence (MI) team from 28 September as a Lead Analyst. Chris has over 20 years of commercial experience within the GB dairy market and his appointment is a significant one for the development of our MI offer to dairy farmers. Chris has spent the last 15 years in various roles within First Milk, most recently as Business Development Director. Look out for Chris at MI levy payer presentations towards the end of the year.


One of the most happening places in Sofia, Sofia Live Club is a large spacious venue with a different band every night, playing anything from jazz and blues to soul and salsa. Great music is this place's selling point and many big international names have appeared here. Located on the lower ground level of the National Palace of Culture.


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The prayer focus is that God will bless the nations so that "the earth will be filled with the knowledge and glory of the Lord". (Habakkuk 2:14) Many international prayer organizations have joined forces for this event. They want to form a "canopy of prayer" above all the continents. Such a beautiful signal of unity cannot leave the Lord's heart unmoved and will have a great spiritual effect on this planet.
On the day of Pentecost prayer meetings will be held simultaneously, and in some countries whole football stadiums will be taken over. In Belgium we are aiming for one prayer meeting in every town. Smaller cities can join together with others in their area and in large cities there is room for more meetings. For this to take place, we need at least one leader per town who will (1) take the initiative, (2) collaborate with other churches and (3) communicate the details to this website : overview of the local GDOP-meetings. See the document "instructions" on how to take up the initiative.
In the ten days leading up to Pentecost (i.e. beginning from Ascension Day) we will set up 24hr prayer chains in as many places as possible. This follows the example of the first disciples, who spent ten days united in fervent prayer, waiting for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. In Belgium we are aiming this year for one prayer chain per town (or per region). The ideal would be to have ten churches each filling 24 hours with prayer.
During the 90 days after Pentecost we want to proclaim a special "time of grace" to reach out in evangelization and other activities to help those in need.
Check with the overview of GDOP-meetings if the initiative has been taken up in your town/area for an evening prayer meeting. If so, then get in touch with the coordinator and join this meeting.
If not, then perhaps you will have to take the initiative yourself (see "Instructions"). Please do not wait for too long, but keep your ear to the ground and get something moving in your town! Get in touch with the other churches, decide together on the place, the time and the programme, and pass this info on the list on this website.
All the materials can be downloaded : a folder giving general information, a poster, a press release, the instructions on organising the prayer evening, tips on setting up a prayer chain, a list with prayer topics for the ten days, and the "Prayer for the World".
A Dvd with inspiring video clips on the subject of prayer can be ordered from the e-mail address below (free gift).
Spend during the Pentecost Sunday Meeting a special time of prayer of 15-20 minutes. A special "Prayer for the World" has been written, that will be read out and prayed worldwide.
As many as possible should try to attend the closing prayer evening on Pentecost Sunday in your town or area (see the address & time on the overview of GDOP-meetings).
Any financial support for this project will be most welcome on the following bank account : "Prayer Belgium", 979-6353088-78.


The closest airport to Mount Hagen is Mount Hagen Airport (HGU). Distance from Mount Hagen Airport to Mount Hagen is 5.0 miles / 8.0 kilometers.
Mount Hagen Airport is located approximately 5.0 miles / 8.0 kilometers northeast of Mount Hagen and about 49.3 miles / 79.3 kilometers northeast of Mendi. IATA airport code is HGU.
Distance from Wapenamanda Airport to Mount Hagen is 27.4 miles / 44.2 kilometers. Wapenamanda Airport is located approximately 27.4 miles / 44.2 kilometers northwest of Mount Hagen and about 38.6 miles / 62.0 kilometers northeast of Mendi. IATA airport code is WBM.
Distance from Mendi Airport to Mount Hagen is 44.3 miles / 71.2 kilometers. Mendi Airport is located approximately 0.0 miles / 0.1 kilometers east of Mendi and about 44.3 miles / 71.2 kilometers southwest of Mount Hagen. IATA airport code is MDU.
Distance from Chimbu Airport to Mount Hagen is 52.2 miles / 84.1 kilometers. Chimbu Airport is located approximately 28.9 miles / 46.6 kilometers west of Goroka and about 52.2 miles / 84.1 kilometers east of Mount Hagen. IATA airport code is CMU.


…you will discover here many valuable insights and tips about dealing with the challenges of planning practice from the early career stories of experienced and senior town planners.
Winner of the 2017 PIA National Award for Planning Excellence in Cutting Edge Research and Teaching category, the book contains advice and reflections of many of Australia's most experienced planners on the joys and perils of being a planner.
The judges were unanimous in their decision to present the Award for Excellence in the Promotion of Planning category to "Town Planning for Everyone." Available online, this initiative provides a continuous link to both the planning community and the general public. The judges felt this web based service facilitates public interaction which is a priority for planning particularly during a time of significant growth.
I recommend Robin King Cullen's latest book "Mastering the Art of Planning. This book is a must read for planning students and graduates who are just embarking on their planning career.
Robin uses 100 stories recounted by a number of planning practitioners who talked about the highs and lows throughout their careers. Everything is covered from developing confidence in your own ability to give advice, to dealing with ethical issues.
"Mastering the Art of Planning – 100 Stories from Urban Planning Practice" is a terrific collection of reflections from planners across the country and from all walks, ages and disciplines within planning. I hope many students and individuals who may be seeking a career in planning access these reflections.
Leo Jensen FPIA CPP, Principal – Leo Jensen Consulting, Vice-President, PIA (Qld) Committee 2016.
10% of all book sale profits is donated to charities supporting the homeless.
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If you are a designer, you'll rarely come across an FDF file. In fact, you may have never even heard of FDF, since it's not among the familiar formats that designers know and love. But there's a lot to like about FDFs: their compact nature can simplify your workflow and in some instances, save you a lot of time and effort.
Read the entire article at Creative Pro.


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import org.gradle.tooling.internal.protocol.InternalBuildActionFailureException;
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October 2014: Wendys nutrition facts can be downloaded below.
Wendy's is a late-comer to the Fast Food industry. Started in 1969 in Columbus Ohio by Dave Thomas, Wendy's was, from the beginning, dedicated to nutrition and fresh, quality ingredients. Dave's vision was for made-to-order hamburgers made with premium ingredients. Wendy's proudly shares their nutrition information in a nutrition pdf that is unique amongst its competitors: the pdf also shows allergen information. This added service gives the consumer peace of mind, and allows concerned customers (especially parents) the ability to make safe, informed food choices. Wendy's even breaks their sandwich and salad production down into component parts, sharing even more information with their customers. This pro-active and consumer- centric approach certainly goes above and beyond the industry norm of sharing only essential nutritional information.
Wendy's menu items contain the usual hamburgers, salads and tasty fries, but it should be noted that all of these items are made to order, with fresh ingredients. While the Dave's Hot and Juicy ¾ Pound Triple burger cannot be thought of as being a good low-calorie choice (1090 calories, 29 grams of fat) at least the ingredients are farm-fresh, and the meat is not frozen. The Value Burgers (Junior Bacon Cheeseburger, Junior Cheeseburger, Junior Hamburger) all have the same ingredients, and are less than 400 calories. With the exception of the BBQ Ranch Chicken Salad (580 Calories, 29 grams of fat) the Wendy's salads are very good indeed: high protein, low calories, low fat. Wendy's also offers some very good lunch items that will fill you up without filling you out, including chili, and baked potatoes (which are fine unless they are smothered with cheese and butter).
Parents will be pleased with the Wendy's Kids Meals with offer nutritionally balance choices (milk or apple juice instead of a soft drink) and low fat, burgers or chicken wraps. And, since the meals are made-to-order, a lot of tears, screaming and seat kicking can be avoided by being able to tell the cashier to leave off the mustard, but add extra pickles to your little one's burger.
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Islam, Women and Feminism ( 13 Feb 2013, NewAgeIslam.Com)
Pak Girls' Band Shining Light for All-Kashmiri Girl Rock Band
New Age Islam News Bureau
• Indonesian Council of Ulema Warned Muslims Not To Celebrate Valentine's Day
• Online Matchmaking a Hit with Saudi Couples
• Filipino Women Take Lead in Resolving Muslim Insurgency
• Saudi Rights Watchdog to Increase Female Membership
• Haia to Enforce Ban on Men in Lingerie Shops Next Week
• 3,500 Pakistani Women Screened Under 'National Breast Screening Programme'
• Bad Start to the Year for Women in Indonesia
• Baloch Missing Persons: A Sister's Vigil
• Nigerian Mother Confesses To Murdering Infant, 40 Years On
• Conference on Women's Rights in Islam Wraps up in Tehran
• Watchdog Acts to Reverse Deportation Order for Nigerian, a Mother of Saudi Children
• Blind Saudi Girl Nominated For Mix FM Competition
• Saudi Movie 'Hurma' To Be Screened At Berlin Film Festival
Photo: Pakistani girls Zebunissa Bangash and Haniya Aslam, 33-year-old cousins from Peshawar, have a music band
URL: https://www.newageislam.com/islam,-women-and-feminism/new-age-islam-news-bureau/pak-girls--band-shining-light-for-all-kashmiri-girl-rock-band/d/10415
Aarish Chhabra, Hindustan Times
If ever there was an example of how stereotypes are mere figments of an imagination stuck in time, this music band from Pakistan stands out.
Zebunissa Bangash and Haniya Aslam ('Zeb & Haniya'), 33-year-old cousins who hail from Peshawar and are based in Islamabad, have tasted fame across borders, thanks largely to the internet and also due to their choice of music, fusing Central and South Asian melodies with Western acoustic guitar and drums, preserving and furthering a rich shared culture.
It is in this culture that Haniya suggests refuge for Pragaash, the first all-Kashmiri girl rock band of three from Srinagar (Kashmir) that has decided to stop performing after rape threats online and a fatwa over their allegedly un-Islamic vocation. The Kashmiri band was banished from the Valley last week.
"There shouldn't be too much importance attached to fundamentalists who just want limelight. We have a long list of inspirational female singers such as Abida Parveen and Madam Noorjehan even in Pakistan. It's part of our tradition," Haniya says matter-of-factly over the phone from Islamabad.
"We have faced lots of abuse online, but the negative comments are invariably posted by anonymous users. So, I simply ignore (them). There is no need to feel scared," says Zeb, who is readying an album in Mumbai with music director Shantanu Moitra and lyricist-singer Swanand Kirkire.
Though the families of Zeb and Haniya are ethnic Pashtuns native to Kohat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the heart of the Taliban-infested region of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, the US-educated girls have refused to bow to abuse and pressures, and in fact recall times when they have performed to a cheering crowd of boys and girls in Peshawar.
Haniya seeks to dispel notions. "I have followed the Kashmir band story, and I can identify with the girls. Online threats are there, but we have never faced fatwas, physical threats or had to cancel shows. I'd admit that we were actually pleasantly surprised that the negative comments were outnumbered by the encouraging ones," says Haniya. Much of the apprehension of a fundamentalist backlash, she believes, stems from wrong notions about the region. And so-called leaders cash in on that.
Both Zeb and Haniya find it hard to explain why they haven't faced as strong a torrent of abuse as did Pragaash, but Haniya says, "It's perhaps because we don't dress up like your typical rockstars, though none of that is a conscious decision; I don't really know, man... I've never sat down and thought, 'Hmm… I AM A MUSLIM GIRL'."
For Pragaash (meaning, darkness to light) - teenagers Noma Nazir Bhatt (vocals-guitar), Farah Deeba (drums) and Aneeka Khalid, (guitar) - they have practical suggestions. "Just keep making music, even if it's in your bedroom. And wait for the limelight-seekers to ebb away," says Haniya. "Share your talent, like we did, on the internet or other like-minded forums. Who can stop that?" Zeb adds.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Punjab/Chandigarh/Pak-girls-band-shining-light-for-Pragaash/SP-Article1-1010948.aspx
Indonesian Council of Ulema Warned Muslims Not To Celebrate Valentine's Day
JAKARTA, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian Council of Ulema (MUI) warned Muslims not to celebrate Valentine's Day here Wednesday, saying it's not in accordance with Islamic values.
MUI's Chairman Umaar Shinhab told Indonesia's news portal Tempo.co that it's forbidden for Muslims to observe the "day of love" which falls on February 14 as the celebration involves religious ritual and is prone to lead to "free sex". "Love can be expressed or shown any time without bounded by a certain day," Shinhab said, adding that the young should follow the right religious teachings so as not to be affected by deviant culture.
The deputy mayor of Depok has appealed Tuesday residents, especially younger people not to celebrate Valentine's Day on Thursday.
In recent years, it has become customary for MUI, the highest Islamic authority in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, to issue edicts resisting Valentine's Day celebration.
Edicts issued by the MUI are generally considered as a form of public guidance and carry no legal authority.
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.asp?id=125312
Online matchmaking a hit with Saudi couples
RIYADH — Traditional matchmakers in the Kingdom face tough competition from blossoming marriage services on online social networks.
More than 200 Twitter sites and dozens of other forums on the Internet offer services for Saudi men and women seeking spouses, angering matchmakers like Um Sami who sees it as "organized prostitution."
"Social networks undermine our work and everything they offer is virtual: they use nicknames and they are not reliable," said Um Sami, an elderly woman and well-established matchmaker from Jeddah.
For her, many of these websites are "fraudulent."
"Marriage via online platforms is one hundred percent doomed to failure," she said, stressing that only her traditional matchmaking method can lead to a successful marriage.
For matchmakers like Um Sami the business has flourished by word of mouth.
Families ready to marry off their offsprings contact her with details about their children and provide pictures which she carries around with her on rounds to match candidates.
But her job is not a simple one because, as she says, there are many different types of weddings that can be contracted in Saudi Arabia, from the traditional unions to unconventional ones by global standards such as the "misyar" marriage.
A misyar — or "visitor's" marriage — is one in which couples live separately but can meet up when they want.
It is allowed in the Kingdom but couples who choose to go that way will keep it a family secret shared only with the matchmaker.
In a traditional union sealed with the help of Um Sami, the bride and groom each pay the matchmaker around SR2,000.
But the fee for a misyar wedding is much higher and usually starts around SR5,000 — with the man alone having to foot the bill while his spouse continues to live in her own home.
Misyar is often the marriage of choice for polygamous men as well as divorcees and widows in Saudi Arabia, where extra-marital relations are strictly banned and punishable under Islamic law.
Human rights activists and intellectuals have slammed misyar marriages as a form of "legalized adultery."
Offers to help seal both traditional marriages and misyars are rife on the Internet.
The website khtabh.net allows men and women to post their requests. One message reads: "Misyar marriage wanted immediately in Riyadh... and the matchmaker or mediator will be offered a big reward."
Candidates are also asked to give personal details, including their marital status, monthly salary, education and a brief description of who they are and what they look like.
A man wanting to marry has posted a request on one such site for a "tender, quiet, good humored and plump" wife.
A woman from Riyadh with special needs said she was 23, "pretty, blind, fair-skinned. Willing to marry a normal, non-smoking man even if he is polygamous as long as his first wife is informed."
Both online matchmaking sites in Saudi Arabia and matchmakers frown upon more unorthodox forms of marriage such as "misfar" and "misyaf" marriages for men who travel frequently or spend each summer abroad.
"There are so many offers which one finds tempting to try, but my friends have warned me against certain websites that can be traps," said 20-year-old Amjad Ismael. Many online matchmaking services ask for a deposit upfront, he said.
Abu Mohammed, a 40-year-old who is already married and is looking for a second wife, said he has had a "bad experience" with online matchmakers.
"They are not serious. They try to take advantage of people contacting them, especially if they are married," he said. "I have now decided to go back to the traditional matchmaker to ensure confidentiality."
But younger people still prefer social networks as a tool to tie the knot "because they are an easy way to get to know each other," said sociologist Abu Bakr Baqdar.
"In the past, people got to know one another through families and neighbors," he said.
Young people are now looking for "less traditional means to meet away from their families' interference."
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20130214153121
Dozens march in Kabul to end violence against women
Kabul: Dozens of Afghan activists have marked Valentine's Day by marching in Kabul to denounce violence against women.
Concern has risen after rights organisations last year found that Afghan women are frequently victims of violence — despite a law against it and increased prosecution of abusers.
Rights activist Humaira Rasouli says the marchers want violence against women "to be eliminated or at least reduced in Afghanistan," but unfortunately it "is increasing day to day."
Riot police stood guard as male and female activists walked from the landmark Darul Aman Palace outside of Kabul to an area near parliament. Unlike past protests that were marred by stone-throwing and insults, Thursday's march remained peaceful.
The event is part of a global domestic violence awareness campaign called One Billion Rising.
http://www.firstpost.com/world/dozens-march-in-kabul-to-end-violence-against-women-625492.html
Filipino Women Take Lead in Resolving Muslim Insurgency
Simon Tisdall
The idea that a woman can mediate successfully between armed groups of hostile men, and that one of these groups comprises hard-line, Sharia-touting Islamists, might seem far-fetched to traditional western societies but not so in the Philippines, where not one but two women have taken the lead in resolving the long-running Muslim insurgency in Mindanao.
Teresita Quintos Deles, below, a former teacher, women's rights advocate and anti-poverty tsar known popularly as 'Ging', was re-appointed presidential adviser on the peace process by President Benigno Aquino in July, 2010. Since then, her steady and patient hand has guided the combatants of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and their government interlocutors towards a historic peace deal that both sides now regard as all but inevitable.
Full report at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/13/filipino-women-mindanao-conflict
Saudi rights watchdog to increase female membership
Boost in membership related to women issues to be raised at Shura Council
By Habib Toumi
Manama: A Saudi human rights watchdog is planning to boost the number of women members in line with the breakthrough appointment of 30 women to the country's Shura Council.
"We have plans to increase the number of women adherents and to set up new branches to handle grievances related to the status of women that are still pending at the main office," Meflah Al Qahtani, the head of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR), said.
A major plan includes tackling issues related to the education of women in rural and desert areas and near the borders where their schooling chances are severely limited.
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/saudi-rights-watchdog-to-increase-female-membership-1.1146167
Haia to enforce ban on men in lingerie shops next week
The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia) will start next week to implement an agreement, signed with the Ministry of Labor, to enforce a ban on men working at women's lingerie and accessory shops in the Kingdom.
Haia Chairman Abdul Latif Al-Asheikh was quoted in a local newspaper as saying that Haia members will carry out inspections across the country. "We shall assume this task of inspecting lingerie shops starting next week," he said.
http://www.arabnews.com/haia-enforce-ban-men-lingerie-shops-next-week
3,500 Pakistani Women Screened Under 'National Breast Screening Programme'
ISLAMABAD: The Pink Ribbon Campaign in collaboration with cancer hospitals of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) has screened more than 3,500 women for free, under the 'National Breast Screening Programme'
Pink Ribbon Campaign CEO Omar Aftab said that many hospitals of the PAEC, including AEMC Cancer Hospital Karachi, KIRAN Cancer Hospital Karachi, BINO Cancer Hospital Bahawalpur, CENAR Cancer Hospital Quetta, CENUM Cancer Hospital Lahore, INMOL Cancer Hospital Lahore, IRNUM Cancer Hospital Peshawar, INOR Cancer Hospital Abbottabad, LINAR Cancer Hospital Larkana, MINAR Cancer Hospital Multan, NORI Cancer Hospital Islamabad, NIMRA Cancer Hospital Jamshoro, PINUM Cancer Hospital Faisalabad and GINUM Cancer Hospital Gujranwala have been directly working with the programme.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2013\02\14\story_14-2-2013_pg11_6
Bad Start to the Year for Women in Indonesia
Deanna Ramsay, Jakarta
First there was RI. An 11-year-old from a family of Jakarta scavengers discovered with injuries to her genitals and a sexually transmitted disease. RI's 55-year-old father, Sunoto, who has the same disease, reportedly confessed to raping her. The girl passed away on Jan. 6 from an inflammation of the brain.
Then there was NWJ, impregnated by a 39-year-old construction worker when she was 13. NWJ and the married father of two wed on Jan. 26 in a Balinese Hindu ceremony witnessed by both parties' families and officiated by the customary village chief. The 7-months-pregnant teenager went into labour on Feb. 4 and the infant did not survive.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/02/14/bad-start-year-women-indonesia.html
Baloch missing persons: A sister's vigil
By Mohammad Hanif
KARACHI: Farzana Majeed has done her masters in biochemistry from Balochistan University, and now is enrolled in the MPhil programme. If she wasn't a Baloch she'd be either wearing a white coat and working in a lab or, like many young people her age, struggling to get a job. Or at least turning up for her M Phil classes.
Instead, she has spent the last four years of her life sitting in protest camps, turning up for court hearings, speaking at political rallies.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/507171/baloch-missing-persons-a-sisters-vigil/
Nigerian Mother Confesses To Murdering Infant, 40 Years On
JEDDAH – A woman in her 60s has turned herself in to a police station in Jeddah's Al-Nuzlatain neighbourhood police and confessed to murdering her infant 40 years ago.
She told police she was a 13-year-old Nigerian citizen when she married a Saudi citizen. When she gave birth to her boy, she said she felt annoyed by this intruder in her life.
Someone suggested that she kill her infant by choking him to death, she told police. She was a child herself, and did not realize that it was a crime.
Conference on women's rights in Islam wraps up in Tehran
Muslim scholars from Europe, Africa, and Asia along with representatives of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation attended the first conference on women's rights in Islam held in Tehran.
The final statement of second meeting of women ministers of the OIC stipulates that human rights and women's rights in particular has to be further discussed and this meeting is in line with the agreements made two years ago.
http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/02/13/288775/conference-women-rights-islam-tehran/
Watchdog Acts to Reverse Deportation Order for Nigerian, Mother of Saudi Children
Human rights group insists mother should remain with children
By Habib Toumi, Bureau chief
Manama: A Saudi rights watchdog is racing against time to halt administrative procedures to deport a Nigerian woman from Saudi Arabia, saying that her expulsion was "unacceptable".
"We are coordinating efforts to find a solution for Zainab, the Nigerian woman married to a Saudi national and mother of Saudi children," Meflah Al Qah'tani, the head of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR), said. "Her detention in a deportation facility is unacceptable and she should be released as she is the mother of Saudi children who critically need her to be with them," he said in remarks published by local news site Sabq on Wednesday.
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/watchdog-acts-to-reverse-deportation-order-for-nigerian-in-saudi-arabia-1.1146077
Blind Saudi girl nominated for Mix FM competition
JEDDAH – A blind Saudi girl was nominated to win the Mix FM "Microphone Star" competition after receiving a high amount of votes from listeners, Al-Hayat reported.
Ibtisam Al-Malki, a resident of Makkah, has not been discouraged by her disability and looked forward to winning the competition, which offers a job and cash prize to the winner.
The competition is enjoying high ratings near its finale and the support of big stars such as Mohammed Abdu.
Saudi Movie 'Hurma' To Be Screened At Berlin Film Festival
JEDDAH — For the first time ever, a short Saudi movie "Hurma" will be screened at the Berlin International Film Festival that kicked off last Thursday.
According to Al-Youm newspaper, "Hurma" has been made by filmmaker Ahad Kamel who is also the protagonist in the film.
Kamel plays the role of a poor pregnant woman trying to save her unborn baby with limited resources.


"Péter hears cooks here often."
Translation:Péter gyakran hall itt szakácsokat.
Word order is flexible here. What was your answer? Maybe it was correct and the contributors just didn't add it yet.
Thanks and you are right, it was more frustration on my part :) I think I put the verb 'Hall' at the end, which I'm sure can't be wrong.
My problem is more with the English sentence "Péter hears cooks here often.". Would anyone ever say it like this? I just want to move "often" three places ahead.
Yes the English sentence sounded strange to me too, but I thought it might have been to help with the Hungarian translated word order for the sentence, but it clearly wasn't.
Péter often hears cooks here.
Péter hears cooks here often.
Both sound OK to me.
The first one might be used when you want to emphasise that he hears cooks (and not singers) here often; the second if you want to emphasise that he hears cooks often (and not just rarely).
I'm not sure what the more neutral (less marked) word order would be, but I think it might be the one with the adverb at the end, i.e. the second sentence (Duo's version).
Yeah, placing "often" at the end of the sentence seems to emphasise it in English (focal emphasis, not topical) and in the Hungarian example, gyakran is right before the vowel (which is where the focus goes), so this does seem to match ... even though it took me a couple of seconds to understand the English sentence. I misinterpreted "cooks" as a verb and I was like "Peter hears cooks ... WHAT? ... oh ..."
Is this order correct? "Péter gyakran itt szakácsokat hall"
That's one of the few places where "itt" can't go. Unfortunately I can't explain it, but it definitely isn't natural.
"Gyakran" refers to the word that follows it. It can be any of the words in this sentence, you just have to put it after "gyakran". But by doing so, this word you chose will inevitably be in the focus of the sentence. The focus of the sentence is always followed by the verb (unless the verb itself is in the focus, of course).
In other words, if you want "itt" to come after "gyakran" (thus emphasising it), only the verb can follow it: "Péter gyakran itt hall szakácsokat."
Péter gyakran itt hall szakácsokat.
Itt hall gyakran szakácsokat Péter.
I hope it was understandable. If not, tell me what's unclear, and I'll try to explain it better.
Thank you @Shamarth, for your thoughtful response.
So it seems to me (but I'm not sure enough to report it) that "Péter itt szakácsokat gyakran hall" might be correct?
Hogy lehet szakácsokat hallani, most már tényleg. Már nem tudom hányadszor bukom el, csak azért mert hihetetlenül értelmetlen és magyartalan mondatokat raknak be. Gondoltam, ha megcsináltam az angolt, akkor megcsinálom visszafelé angolról magyarra is gyakorlásképpen, de ennek így nem sok értelme van.
Glad to see magyar here.
"The bus is often here."
"Péter is not stupid, on the contrary! He is very smart."
"Where are the young cooks?"


I had a great time finally meeting Debbie and her family. Bo & Bell were the perfect addition to the family portraits - as you know I love dogs! And Aidan - oh Aidan and those big blue eyes...so handsome!!
Debbie - thanks so much for being patient with setting up your session...I hope you agree it was well worth the wait!! Enjoy your sneak peek!
Sunday dinners in the Morrison family just got a little bigger! Sweet little man Kyle is one of my best friends nephews and is the fifth little boy on his Daddy's side of the family - he is cousins with Mason and Claire who I recently had the pleasure to photograph.
Hana & David - thank you so much for allowing me to come and capture the memories of Kyle as a newborn. Congrats!! Enjoy your sneak peek!
Megan and Eric are getting married this September and I am SO EXCITED to photograph their wedding, because from the first moment I met them at their engagement session I could just tell how much fun their wedding is going to be! They are such a fun couple...and not to mention they have a super cute doggie Taylor - who just happened to make a few appearances in their engagement photos, which you know I love.
Megan and Eric lived a little while in Texas and they wanted to pay a little homage to their lives there by sporting cowboy boots for some of the session - and it couldn't have been more perfect! Such a beautiful couple...I can't wait to see how gorgeous Megan is as a bride!!
Megan and Eric - thanks so much for allowing me to be a part of this special time in your lives! I couldn't decide on 5 or 6 photos for your preview...so you got a few (a lot!) more :) Enjoy your sneak peek!


There are three types of people; touchy-feely bodies who consistently hug you hello, appropriate casual huggers and those who acquisition displays of amore uncomfortable. Interestingly enough, your touchy-feely accompany may additionally be happier and healthier, as contempo analysis is alpha to analyze the hug as a applicable brainy and concrete bloom boost.
How? For starters, a contempo abstraction appear in PLoS One advised whether the furnishings of a acceptable hug can allay you throughout the day — alike if you face battle afterward. Advisers begin those who were hugged were beneath afflicted by "conflict exposure," or interpersonal conflict, than those who weren't hugged. The gender of the huggers didn't matter, and neither did the ambience of the accord (romantic, familial or platonic).
One of the advance authors of the study, Michael Murphy, Ph.D., post-doctoral analysis accessory at the Laboratory for the Abstraction of Stress, Immunity, and Ache in the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, says it's because blow deactivates the allotment of the academician that responds to threats, and in about-face beneath hormones are appear to arresting a accent response, and your cardiovascular arrangement adventures beneath stress.
"In added words, it's affiliated to beneath of a 'fight-or-flight' acknowledgment to demanding situations," Murphy explains, abacus that theorists accept interpersonal blow can attune oxytocin (a feel-good hormone additionally accepted as "the bundle chemical") and the autogenous opioid arrangement (neurons in the academician that can aftermath abatement chemicals), both of which can addition health. "Feeling safer and cared for, in turn, can accomplish us beneath acute to concrete affliction and beneath acknowledging back faced with potentially aggressive experiences, abnormally socially aggressive experiences," he says.
The angle that a hug can affluence amore of the accepted algid ability assume absolutely cool — but analysis suggests otherwise. Addition abstraction from Murphy's colleagues at Carnegie Mellon advised how accent and amusing abutment impacts amnesty and susceptibility to communicable disease. Participants were apparent to a accepted algid virus and were again monitored in apprehension to appraise signs of illness. The abstraction begin that those who acquainted socially accurate and were hugged added about additionally accomplished less-severe signs of illness.
Meanwhile, addition abstraction begin affectionate amore as an indicator of a child's approaching health. "Childhood affliction increases accident for brainy and concrete bloom problems in adulthood," explains abstraction columnist Judith E. Carroll, Ph.D., abettor assistant of psychiatry at UCLA. What does this accept to do with hugging? She told us, in her study, individuals who appear affecting and concrete corruption in childhood, and bound adulation and amore from a parent, were best at accident for bloom issues after in life. Oddly enough, if an alone appear corruption but additionally accustomed adulation and amore from a affectionate amount during childhood, it somehow mitigated the appulse of corruption on their health.
On the cast ancillary of the age equation, a Swedish abstraction of 172 nursing home association begin association who accustomed hugs and concrete touch, affiliated with accompany and visitors, and were contrarily alive socially, had a addiction to advance added than beneath amusing residents.
Like Murphy mentioned earlier, hugs assume to accumulate the cardiovascular arrangement from actuality stressed. A study, from the University of North Carolina, recruited 59 women ages 20-49 who had been active with a apron or austere accomplice for at atomic six months. At first, the women were asked to sit appropriate by their ally and anamnesis a time they acquainted decidedly aing for a few minutes, watch a adventurous video for a few minutes, allocution for addition brace of account and end with a 20-second hug. After all that, the women were afar from their ally and appropriate to adapt and almanac a accent about article that fabricated them affronted or fatigued out. Their findings? The hug accumulation had lower claret burden and affection ante during the demanding task. And the women who said they got added hugs from their ally about had college oxytocin levels at all phases of testing, abrogation the advisers to achieve that oxytocin may be a articulation amid adhering and lower claret pressure.
So, the aing time one of your accompany or ancestors is stressed, go on advanced and action them a hug. "The charge to accord — and agreeable in behaviors that affect our faculty of acceptance — is allotment of our attributes as humans," says Murphy.


"A poignant and engaging mystery, Vivian Qu's feature debut plunges us into the fascinating world of state surveillance in China as it follows a digital mapping surveyor's investigation of an 'off-the-grid' hidden alley. Li Qiuming works at a digital mapping company, photographing the streets that comprise the maze of China's ever-changing cities. One day while out surveying, he sees through his viewfinder an attractive woman disappearing into a secluded alley. Unable to forget the mysterious lady who has triggered his romantic imagination, Qiuming returns to where he saw her first, only to discover that the data he collected there was never registered. Even though he stands right there in front of the street sign, Forest Lane has fallen off the map of the city, as if it never existed."—Toronto International Film Festival.


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A Mobile Ad-hoc Network is characterized as a system that is remote and dynamic. It can be outlined with no need for earlier framework where each hub goes about as switch. A versatile Ad hoc Network is a self-arranging arrangement of portable hubs that are associated remotely. Each hub capacities as a sink and in addition a switch to send packets. These hubs can move unreservedly and freely toward any path and ready to get sorted out into a system. Thus, they change their positions as often as possible. In this study, a correlation is made between Ad-hoc On Demand Distance Vector convention and Ad-hoc On Multipath Demand Distance Vector convention utilizing system test system NS2.35.
AODV is reactive gateway discovery algorithm where a MANET mobile device connects only on-demand. AOMDV was basically made for highly dynamic ad-hoc networks to respond to link breakages and failures in network. It deals with managing ways for the goals and utilizations goal arrangement numbers to define the fresh routing to guarantee circle flexibility consistently and to stay away from issues. It is a protocol based on timer that finds ways for the mobile nodes to respond to breakages in links and changes in topology. The result demonstrates that the AODV is superior to AOMDV when the number of node increases. Then again, the AOMDV has better performance when the simulation increases.


We need to move all maintenance scripts to use PHP 7.2 instead of HHVM.
This can be done by simply prepending PHP=php7.2 to all the invokations of mwscript etc in the maintenance scripts.
• Vvjjkkii renamed this task from Run all jobs on PHP7 to rfcaaaaaaa.
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@Shizhao This is a tracking task for migrating the WMF JobQueue jobrunner infrastructure to PHP 7. The PHP7.0-support project is for tracking known problems with code that does not support PHP 7 correctly.
It is possible that as part of the migration, we may encounter incompatibilities. Those will be created as sub tasks and tagged with PHP7.0-support, but this migration is not itself a compatibility problem, and will also work unrelated to compatibility, such as server upgrades and configuration changes.
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Krinkle renamed this task from Use PHP7 for RPC requests on jobrunner web servers to Use PHP7 for web requests on jobrunner servers.
@Jdforrester-WMF Can you confirm that this task is about cron jobs, as opposed to JobQueue jobs? Based on the sub tasks, I think I misinterpreted the title.
This was initially meant for cron, manual maintenance, and jobqueue jobs (i.e., everything that's not a WebRequest or the dumps), but happy for this to be re-purposed to whatever helps.
Thanks. I'll purpose it for maintenance hosts (CLI maintenance scripts from cron).
For job runners, we use the same configuration as regular MW servers, and are actually invoked over HTTP as internal POST requests, so they'll be transitioned at the same time as other web servers. We'll probably do it by cluster of web servers (web, api, jobrunner, videoscaler), but we don't need a separate task for that.
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@Joe I tried with the first one above and it was fine in production, mwmaint1002, but then i noticed cron spam from labweb1001/1002.
So apparently the crons run on these hosts and we have to setup php7.2 on them.
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labweb1001/1002 should be wikitech. Do you need any other concrete info?


This briefing details how, since the state of emergency was declared shortly after the 13 November 2015 Paris attacks, French authorities have implemented emergency counter-terrorism measures, including house searches without warrant, assigned residence orders and the closure of mosques and businesses. More than 3,242 house searches have been conducted and over 400 assigned residence orders imposed. The briefing is based on interviews with about 60 people subjected to the disproportionate impact of these measures. The report also assesses France's emergency measures against international human rights law and standards and makes a series of recommendations.


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This is the 10th and final harvest for the Winter program. We are aiming for a start date of May 31, 2019 (weather permitting) for our Spring, Summer , Fall C.S.A. program. Members will be notified one week before we start. Its going to be our best year yet! Thank you for your Community Supported Agriculture.